The great thing about these quotes is that you can remove "martial arts" and include any other subject matter that is important in your life such as work, school, or health, and the words still ring true.
Tomorrow's battle is won during today's practice. - Samurai maxim
"Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class." - Choi, Hong Hi, Founder of Taekwon-Do
A warrior must only take care that his spirit is never broken. - Shissai
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow, or it can crash. Be water my friend. - Bruce Lee
"Do, or do not, there is no try." -YodaI fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. ~ Bruce Lee
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. ~ Aristotle
"To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill." - Sun-Tsu
The bully is looking for a victim and not a challenge. - Unknown
"The wood should fear your hand--not the other way around. No wonder you can't do it--you acquiesce to defeat before you even begin." -- Pai Mai on board breaking
"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." -Confucius
There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice. ~Dogen
“To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other" - Kokoro
"...Sometimes you just gotta fight harder than the third monkey on the Ark."
ReplyDeleteSaid at the Milwaukee Gathering, 2009